HOW LONG – V

Waiting for the return
which will not come
the Lost Year s?
six months and counting

For how long now
have I been making myself invisible
three days of disconnect send me in a panic
of epiphany

Toughen up take courage but
after three solitary days
I look!  and
the rage returns.

Why record the flailing
one individual like all
others or not maybe just the
small tracking of monstrous times.

– Diane Sophrin
  Vermont. 9.7.20

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